White House lawyer tells House speaker to end Biden impeachment ‘charade’

The White House’s top lawyer told House Republicans to give up on their impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, calling the investigation a “charade”.

The White House counsel, Ed Siskel, told the House speaker, Mike Johnson that “it is clear the House Republican impeachment is over” in a scathing letter sent on Friday morning.

Siskel pointed out that despite House Republicans collecting over 100,000 pages of records and conducting interviews with dozens of witnesses, including multiple public hearings, “none of the evidence has demonstrated that the president did anything wrong.

“This impeachment inquiry in large part has been based on allegations made by troubling sources,” Siskel writes, referring to an FBI informant who was criminally charged last month for lying about his explosive allegations about Biden.

Siskel’s four-page letter is a sign that the White House is taking an increasingly aggressive stance against the impeachment inquiry, which Democrats say is a clear effort to distract voters during an election year.

“It’s obviously time to move on,” he wrote. “There is too much important work to be done for the American people to continue wasting time on this charade.”

Early in the letter, Siskel tells Johnson that members of his own party are starting to turn away from him because of the impeachment inquiry. He cites reports that Republicans are looking for an exit strategy after failing to clinch the impeachment.

Siskel also quotes Ken Buck, a Republican representative from Colorado who announced earlier this week that he would resign from his post at the end of March, leaving the GOP with a weaker House majority.

“We’ve taken impeachment and we’ve made it a social media issue as opposed to a constitutional concept. This